Well, XForms is now a Candidate recommendation ... will we wait until Microsoft starts deploying XForms, and then we have to play catch up?

In response, one poster wrote:

I work at one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, and we need XForms....(Most importantly) To get rid of the Javascript dependancy. Javascript accounts for 90% of our headaches in complex forms, and is extremely brittle and unmaintainable.

Later in the same day, John Keiser, of AOL/Netscape, added:

I'll take this. I will start implementing a month or two from now... It should be a fairly simple task to get a basic implementation up

In the meantime, both commercial and open source outfits have stepped forward with running code: Novell announced, a complete XForms implementation, not to mention fully operational code from X-Smiles, Mozquito, e-XMLMedia, FormsPlayer, and a great phone implementation by HandWise.

What you can do:

As always, you can contribute to the continued success of XForms. You can vote for it in Bugzilla (visit the main page and click "vote for this bug"; registration required). As of this writing, XForms ranks in the top 5, with 171 votes.

Of course, if you can code, there's plenty of opportunities: XBL & JavaScript for Mozilla; Perl for a server-side validator; Python for a couple of interesting projects.

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